Since 2017, a nationwide hackathon has enabled lakhs of students to pitch in and innovatively solve some everyday pressing problems faced by governments, industries, and NGOs with the help of technology. This year, a IIITH team of students built an
When students joined hands to beat misinformation about the pandemic, CovidWire.in was born. Here's how they’ve simplified information consumption even for non-native speakers of English. When Raghavendra R, 68, read an online article of a study with a headline suggesting
In June 2020, when two student researchers from the Centre for Visual Information Technology (CVIT) turned in their entry to the Multiple Object Tracking (MOT) challenge, the submission gained them the first rank in the famously challenging problem. Here’s a
The Indian match-making scene has gotten severely disrupted thanks to the advent of technology. Now, Human Computer Interaction (HCI) researchers at the International Institute of Information Technology Hyderabad have attempted to analyse the effects of virtual reality (VR) on dating
In response to the thousands of globally lost student internships due to Covid-19, Major League Hacking (MLH) has teamed up with a group of companies such as Facebook, Amazon Web Services, PlutoVR, Indeed, Royal Bank of Canada and many such
Just like physical gestures are quick giveaways of your personality and your current emotional state, the way you groove to music also says a lot about you. In a new study that has significant implications for music cognition research, scientists